Sunday, December 15, 2002

The Invisible Revolution that's in Plain Sight "Knowledge makes resources mobile." - Peter Drucker Yeah, right, you say. Russ playing with words again. Well, yeah, that's what I do. (Doesn't mean it isn't true, you decide. :) Consider Gutenburg. Consider how beech transforms to book (beechwood tablets to records to bound record). Or consider rush reed to papyrus scrolls to paper. Or the ancient town of Pergamum in western Turkey where they used the skin of sheep for writing on (parchment). And vellum arriving from Old French veel (calfskin). If I'm not mistaken, Gutenburg and his press led to an upswing in rag collection - the quality of linen paper still tends to be described by its rag content. The link between letter:symbol and letter:document goes back to the beginning -so that intertwine of literacy and literature is as two sides of one coin.... (continued at) 12:12:49 PM